Immortality and the Philosophy of Death

Herausgeber: Cholbi, Michael

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A collection of seminal articles investigating whether death is bad for us - and if so, whether immortality would be good for us.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 424g
• ISBN-13: 9781783483846
• ISBN-10: 1783483849
• Artikelnr.: 42990468

Autorenporträt

Michael Cholbi is Professor of Philosophy at California State Polytechnic University Pomona.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Michael Cholbi / Part I: Is Death Bad for Those That Die? / 1. Victims
Christopher Belshaw / 2. Reconsidering Categorical Desire View
Travis Timmerman / 3. Epicureanism
Extrinsic Badness
and Prudence
Karl Ekendahl and Jens Johansson / 4. Lucretius and the Fear of Death
Frederik Kaufman / 5. The Harms of Death
Duncan Purves / 6. Seeds: On Personal Identity and Resurrection
Sophie-Grace Chappell / Part II: Living with Death / 7. Fearing Death as Fearing the Loss of One's Life: Lessons from Alzheimer's Disease
David Beglin / 8. Constructing Death as Form of Failure: Addressing Mortality in a Neoliberal Age
Beverley Clack / 9. Love and Death
Dan Werner / 10. Learning to Be Dead: The Narrative Problem of Mortality
Kathy Behrendt / 11. Love and Death: The Problem of Resilience
Aaron Smuts / Part III: The Value of an Immortal Life / 12. Immortality
Identity
and Desirability
Roman Altshuler / 13. Resources for Overcoming the Bordeom of Immortality in Fischer and Kierkegaard
Adam Buben /14. Immortality and the Exhaustibility of Value
Michael Cholbi / Index